This year we continue good tradition of big New Year doom-quiz, there’re only 5 questions for a bunch of good and famous (or not so famous yet) doom bands. What kind of questions do we have today? Mmm… Let us see!
1. As always we’re starting with general question: What is the latest news from the band and what is it current state and plans for 2013?
2. Second one is about main hit of the band: Which song does represent the band best? Which one makes you really proud of it?
3. Striking balance as always: Which doom / metal / rock releases were most significant for you in 2012?
4. This question is something new for most of our heroes: What is the best present you got at this New Year / Christmas? I was glad that I’m not alone who get socks from grandmother each year. Long live grandma! Thank you!
5. Well, this question came pretty easy because straight before the New Year came I was enduring worst hangover for 2012. So what was your worst hangover mates? After which drink / substances did you get it and what did you do to reach such amazing results and how you survive it? Preconditions for this question are disclosed in New Year Doom quiz part I.
Here they come! Bloody Hammers, Druid Lord, Katergon, Rigor Sardonicous, The Bottle Doom Lazy Band, Uzala, Viaje a 800, Who Dies In Siberian Slush and Witch Mountain!
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Bloody Hammers (United States, occult doom rock)
Jerry Anders (vocals, bass)
1. Our album comes out in America on Feb 3rd so we're waiting on that. I'm mentally preparing to start writing more for a second album in 2013.
2. "Say Goodbye to the Sun" might be my favorite. Dynamic, melodic, heavy parts... I like that style of song. The song that represents the band I would have to say is "Fear No Evil", that one seems to be a favorite.
3. My favorite album in 2013 was a tie between "Afterglow" by Black Country Communion and "Clockwork Angels" by Rush.
4. My wife and I did reward ourselves with a Nord Electro 3.
5. Too many Jager shots after playing Bar Sinister in Los Angeles in 2005. Legendary hangover the next day.
Bloody Hammers “Say Goodbye to the Sun”
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Druid Lord (United States, death doom)
Pete Slate (guitars)
1. We've got a few things in the works. 1st, our 1st 2010 album "Hymns for the Wicked" is getting a digipack release. The 1st press is basically sold out. Doomentia in corporation with HPGD Prod is putting this out with two bonus tracks (from the Druid Death Cult ep.) We are now also writing our second full length album. We plan to put out another 7"ep on Doomentia tentatively called "Baron Blood." As this is going on we are playing a lot of gigs over the next few months here in south. It's going to be a busy year...hahaha
2. That's a really hard question. All the songs are expressions of how we feel at the time. We are proud of all our tracks. You know we play mostly Doom/Death with lyrics based around cult horror/occult so it's really hard to pick one song out. I will say for me personally I've very proud of "Chamber of Ghastly Horror." It was the very 1st song we wrote for Druid Lord. Since day one our fans have always liked that track. We play it at ever gig. The song just flows from beginning to end.
3. Hooded Menace - Effigies of Evil, Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction, Asphyx - Deathhammer, Coffins - March of Despair, Bell Witch - Longing ,Evoken – Atra Mors, Occutation - Three and Seven, Windhand - Self titled.
4. We'll I didn't get any presents this year. My Christmas tree burned down as it got too close to the fireplace. I was drinking Whiskey at the time. I did buy myself "Orne - Tree of Life on LP"..that's about it..I usually buy myself things during the year anyway. Like new guitar pedals and amp heads.
5. It was Halloween 2011. I was drinking at a local pub. I was all dressed up as some type of 18th Century Vampire. Make up and everything. It was a great costume I must add. Anyway, I was drinking Vodka all night long. Martinis too. I drank so much I don't remember getting home. I passed out on my kitchen floor. The next morning I was freezing and shocked that no one tried to get me into bed. It took me over a week to recover. Worst hangover ever!!!!!!
Druid Lord "Chamber of Ghastly Horror”
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Katergon (Switzerland, atmospheric sludge / doom metal)
Oliver Ruppen (bass) and Mauro Di Cioccio (guitars)
1. Our latest news - the release of our album "Argonaut" - aren't really news anymore. But we've got plenty of positive reactions (reviews as well as personal feedbacks), which we appreciate very much. After the release we had a blast performing on a few stages and bringing our new songs to the audience. That's about what happend in the past year. Regarding 2013 we're looking forward to create new songs by trying to give our music an additional dimension. This will hopefully be an interesting time, since we'll be forced to work as a band even if some of us are living quite far away for the moment.
2. In our oppinion there isn't really a song which represents the full range of our kind of music. Take the song "Endless Life" or "Weakened Hands" on the one hand and "As We Sail the Waters of Oblivion" or "An Old Man's Reflection" on the other, put them in a jar, shake it and what comes out is to be described as the essence of KATERGON! ;-)
In fact every song has got an other element or atmosphere which brings out our musical taste/creativity and we always try to do our best. That's why there isn't such a thing as a favorite song to us.
3. Of course there have to be named the latest releases of Ufomammut, Neurosis, Anathema, Gazpacho, Meshuggah, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Crippled Black Phoenix and Gojira. But there are many more bands and albums which belong to our alltime favorites which were released decades ago!
4.Mauro: Definitely a kitchen knive which even could slice a trunk of a mammut tree!
Oli: I've ordered an electric upright bass which I'm still waiting for. Let's see what I'll be able to get out of it after some lessons! So christmas isn't over yet for me.
5. Oli: My last real and worst hangover of all times was back in about 2004, when I still played with Creeping Vengeance together with Matt and Mauro and we did a Party. I fucked myself up with a bottle of Tullamore Dew and spent the night with my head hanging in the toilets (luckily it was my own)... Since then I cannot even stand the smell of it anymore. I'm sorry to be unable to tell you more. I forgot every single detail about that epic night - or repressed it. That's what a real hangover is all about.
Mauro: Actually my last hangover is only about two weeks old... Since I live in the country of the real traditional Absinth and because there is a bar right at the corner of my House (which sells this heavy booze for half the prize of a coke in an average pub), my flesh was weak. So I drank three and a half big glasses of it without remembering how i made the 100 meters back home. The next thing I can remember was me being more or less in the same position as Oli back in 2004. And: there is no such thing to shorten the ordeal, because drinking whatever liquid substance makes it even worse... By doing it, the Thujon (the hallucinogenic stuff in the Absinth) dissolves itself and you're drunk as hell again.
Katergon “Endless Life”
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Rigor Sardonicous (United States, death doom / funeral)
Joseph Fogarazzo (vocals, guitars)
1. Our last release was March 2012 and we have material for a new album in the works though we are not sure what will be released in 2013.
2. Season of the Dead, The Deathless Sol, and Nox Noctis Theca Dies. We think they may harbor the most dense and bleak of our moods.
3. Our own since it almost did not get released.
4. A place to stay after a hurricane wiped my apartment out.
5. That would have to be this past easter. It started as an innocent dinner with some wine before the pub. A bottle and half of good red wine on my own and a beer before the night even begins. Later a few Shocktop pumpkin brews, along with shots of something I do not know, when I realized I could not walk. Not sure how I survived but it took a many days to recover.
Rigor Sardonicous “Nox Noctis Theca Diesl”
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The Bottle Doom Lazy Band (France, doom)
Guillaume (guitars)
1. Well, so we have a new guitar player since 2 months. We’re actually recording a split LP (with the swedish band VOID MOON witch will be released on Emanes Metal Records) and working on our next album. We hope to record it this summer.
2. I like all of our songs. If somebody in the band dislike a song we don’t keep it. If i’ve to choose one ... maybe SlowStone Banner.
3. The come back of Saint Vitus ! Lillie : F-65 is not their best album, but it’s really great to listen new material of the gods of doom !!
4. A good whisky bottle !
5. Wow, I think it was when i was studying. Eating a shitty MacDo, drinking lot of bad beers and bad whisky. I was really lucky that my friend didn’t want that i died like Bon Scott in his parents house.
The Bottle Doom Lazy Band “SlowStone Banner”
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Viaje a 800 (Spain, stoner doom rock)
1. We have confirmed the last tour in Spain, after that, we quit definitely.
2. With no doubt, for me the best song and my favourite and the one I´m the most proud of is ' Los Angeles que hay en mi Piel' (The Angels in my skin).
3. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill;
Astra - The Black Chord;
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Blood Lust;
Corrosión Of Conformity – self-titled;
Wovenhand - The Laughing Stalk;
Jonathan Wilson - Gentle Spirit.
4. The best gift has been a pysch oil lamp "Mathmos Space Oil Light".
5. Worst hangover ever was on 25th jan 2012, better not mention which substances I took, dangerous... the only thing I can say is I will never drug myself again, at least until I forget that bad experience...
Viaje a 800 “Los Angeles que hay en mi Piel”
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Uzala (United States, doom metal)
Chad Remains (guitars, vocals)
1. UZALA will record new songs in January in Seattle with Tad Doyle at Witch Ape Studio. We will also see the s/t LP be issued in the US by King of the Monsters Records with a bonus 12" single. We will tour with Ephemeros in October hitting the Fall Into Darkness (Portland) and Autumn Screams Doom (Baltimore) festivals along the way. There may be a few other releases as well.
2. This question is like being asked to pick a favorite beer. It depends on my mood and the weather at the time I suppose. I really like playing Death Masque, Burned, The Reaping, Wardrums, Cataract live... I am very happy with Batholith and Gloomy Sunday on the record since we did those very differently than I thought we might. Right now we have new songs that nobody has heard yet - they are very different from what has come before.
3. I mostly listened to Pallbearer when I wasn't listening to old Scorpions or new Darkthrone records. High on Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis is great and the reissue of Dopesmoker by SLEEP sounds fucking MASSIVE on vinyl. The new Myrkraverk is phenomenal - but I don't know if it's released until next year. Jef Whitehead introduced Darcy and I to the music of Ved Buens Ende. I'm amazed by the fact I'd never heard it before.
4. Darcy and I bought each other a tour van. PERFECT.
5. I don't really do hangovers since I don't really drink to excess and I don't do drugs. I prefer to enjoy a few great tasting beers and a good conversation, although I did drink a lot more than usual in Norway - coffee, espresso,vodka, and Bailey's is a deadly good drink after several good beers.
Uzala “Cataract”
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Who Dies In Siberian Slush (Russia, funeral / death doom)
E.S. (guitars, vocals)
1. On 25 December 2012 Who Dies In Siberian Slush released their second album “We Have Been Dead Since Long Ago...” at Solitude prod. Stylistically the material differs from the debut album; it substantially tends to death-doom. Some people did not welcome it, especially in Russia. What can I say...? The third album we are working at will still be different from the
second one. I encourage those who have not formed their unbiased opinion to listen to the album at https://soundcloud.com/wdiss. As far as the plans are concerned. The most possible, yet not fully confirmed, is the presentation of the new album in February-March, and participation in another MOSCOW FUNERAL LEAGUE festival in October 2013.
2. I don't think we have a song representing Who Dies In Siberian Slush ideally yet. Our various tracks could represent us at various periods of time. The first album must be characterized by “Leave Me”, “Mobius Ring” and "Zaveschanie Gumilyova", the second - by “The Day Of Marvin Heemeyer”, “The Spring”, “Of Immortality”. I am critical to my works, almost ironical. Besides, in one song the composer's idea is best developed, in another the performance is finer, in some the text is better, or the atmosphere, etc. I cannot name the song where it all could be combined. I think we have not yet composed and played our best song.
3. I must make it clear, I don't listen to music much, my taste is pretty limited and conservative, and it has been for many years. In general I prefer the 1990's death-metal, death doom, and funeral doom of all kinds. The most interesting releases for me in 2012 were Worship
“Terranean Wake” and Towards Darkness “Barren”. As well as a couple of albums released at Russian labels: Krief de Soli “Munus solitudinis” (Endless Winter) and Ennui “Mze Ukunisa” (MFL-RECORDS).
4. For me it was the beginning of studio work over a full-length album of another project I participate in, Decay Of Reality. It is a real present, sane, swift and fruitful cooperation with soul-mates. Decay Of Reality is hardcore death-metal with texts about psychiatric disorders. My task in the band is vocals. I hope that the results of our work over the DOR debut album will interest funeral/death-doom fans apart from death metal fans, as the band is stocked up with
musicians from Abstract Spirit and Otkrovenie Dozhdya.
5. I lived through my worst hangovers during the university time, when my ideas of what, how much and with whom to drink were only forming. The most treacherous booze, I presume, is hrenovuha (a completely thermonuclear drink of vodka with horseradish). It is great to drink,
great in its effect, yet afterwards terrible reek and severe hangover. I am not good at advising how to combat hangover, as I am a bench warmer now - been sober since October 2012. However, judging by the previous experience, I can say, that the best thing to beat hangover
is to drink away until you drop out again.
Who Dies In Siberian Slush “Of Immortality”
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Witch Mountain (United States, doom metal)
Uta Plotkin (vocals)
1. Witch Mountain is going to EUROPE in April for ROADBURN and subsequent touring!! One of my long-time dreams is coming true. And it will be with Cough and Wounded Kings, two excellent bands. We recently independently released Cauldron of the Wild on vinyl and Rob is writing our fourth album right now. Busy, busy.
2. We have a song called "Shelter" on Cauldron of the Wild that starts off slow and bluesy, gets heavy with stoner rock weight and then takes off with a triumphant gallop into the sunset. It is a good representation of all the styles we like best.
3. I love Blood Ceremony's Living with the Ancients. We got to play with them this year in their hometown, Toronto, and get to know them a little. They are grade A people and musicians, every one; that was a great show!
4. I've been wanting to read 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez for a long time. I got it as a present and now I want to go play metal in South America! I know there are lots of fans down there. Now how do we do it??
5. I can think of 3 that stand out for last year. Two were on tour with Witch Mountain but the worst was in Bali, visiting a friend. Don't drink two bottles of wine and slam a magic mushroom shake!! Pick one or the other! If you insist on doing it anyway, take a friend so they can drag you out of the street and walk you home.
Witch Mountain “Shelter”
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Interviews By Aleks
1. As always we’re starting with general question: What is the latest news from the band and what is it current state and plans for 2013?
2. Second one is about main hit of the band: Which song does represent the band best? Which one makes you really proud of it?
3. Striking balance as always: Which doom / metal / rock releases were most significant for you in 2012?
4. This question is something new for most of our heroes: What is the best present you got at this New Year / Christmas? I was glad that I’m not alone who get socks from grandmother each year. Long live grandma! Thank you!
5. Well, this question came pretty easy because straight before the New Year came I was enduring worst hangover for 2012. So what was your worst hangover mates? After which drink / substances did you get it and what did you do to reach such amazing results and how you survive it? Preconditions for this question are disclosed in New Year Doom quiz part I.
Here they come! Bloody Hammers, Druid Lord, Katergon, Rigor Sardonicous, The Bottle Doom Lazy Band, Uzala, Viaje a 800, Who Dies In Siberian Slush and Witch Mountain!
Jerry Anders (vocals, bass)
1. Our album comes out in America on Feb 3rd so we're waiting on that. I'm mentally preparing to start writing more for a second album in 2013.
2. "Say Goodbye to the Sun" might be my favorite. Dynamic, melodic, heavy parts... I like that style of song. The song that represents the band I would have to say is "Fear No Evil", that one seems to be a favorite.
3. My favorite album in 2013 was a tie between "Afterglow" by Black Country Communion and "Clockwork Angels" by Rush.
4. My wife and I did reward ourselves with a Nord Electro 3.
5. Too many Jager shots after playing Bar Sinister in Los Angeles in 2005. Legendary hangover the next day.
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Pete Slate (guitars)
1. We've got a few things in the works. 1st, our 1st 2010 album "Hymns for the Wicked" is getting a digipack release. The 1st press is basically sold out. Doomentia in corporation with HPGD Prod is putting this out with two bonus tracks (from the Druid Death Cult ep.) We are now also writing our second full length album. We plan to put out another 7"ep on Doomentia tentatively called "Baron Blood." As this is going on we are playing a lot of gigs over the next few months here in south. It's going to be a busy year...hahaha
2. That's a really hard question. All the songs are expressions of how we feel at the time. We are proud of all our tracks. You know we play mostly Doom/Death with lyrics based around cult horror/occult so it's really hard to pick one song out. I will say for me personally I've very proud of "Chamber of Ghastly Horror." It was the very 1st song we wrote for Druid Lord. Since day one our fans have always liked that track. We play it at ever gig. The song just flows from beginning to end.
3. Hooded Menace - Effigies of Evil, Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction, Asphyx - Deathhammer, Coffins - March of Despair, Bell Witch - Longing ,Evoken – Atra Mors, Occutation - Three and Seven, Windhand - Self titled.
4. We'll I didn't get any presents this year. My Christmas tree burned down as it got too close to the fireplace. I was drinking Whiskey at the time. I did buy myself "Orne - Tree of Life on LP"..that's about it..I usually buy myself things during the year anyway. Like new guitar pedals and amp heads.
5. It was Halloween 2011. I was drinking at a local pub. I was all dressed up as some type of 18th Century Vampire. Make up and everything. It was a great costume I must add. Anyway, I was drinking Vodka all night long. Martinis too. I drank so much I don't remember getting home. I passed out on my kitchen floor. The next morning I was freezing and shocked that no one tried to get me into bed. It took me over a week to recover. Worst hangover ever!!!!!!
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Katergon (Switzerland, atmospheric sludge / doom metal)Oliver Ruppen (bass) and Mauro Di Cioccio (guitars)
1. Our latest news - the release of our album "Argonaut" - aren't really news anymore. But we've got plenty of positive reactions (reviews as well as personal feedbacks), which we appreciate very much. After the release we had a blast performing on a few stages and bringing our new songs to the audience. That's about what happend in the past year. Regarding 2013 we're looking forward to create new songs by trying to give our music an additional dimension. This will hopefully be an interesting time, since we'll be forced to work as a band even if some of us are living quite far away for the moment.
2. In our oppinion there isn't really a song which represents the full range of our kind of music. Take the song "Endless Life" or "Weakened Hands" on the one hand and "As We Sail the Waters of Oblivion" or "An Old Man's Reflection" on the other, put them in a jar, shake it and what comes out is to be described as the essence of KATERGON! ;-)
In fact every song has got an other element or atmosphere which brings out our musical taste/creativity and we always try to do our best. That's why there isn't such a thing as a favorite song to us.
3. Of course there have to be named the latest releases of Ufomammut, Neurosis, Anathema, Gazpacho, Meshuggah, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Crippled Black Phoenix and Gojira. But there are many more bands and albums which belong to our alltime favorites which were released decades ago!
4.Mauro: Definitely a kitchen knive which even could slice a trunk of a mammut tree!
Oli: I've ordered an electric upright bass which I'm still waiting for. Let's see what I'll be able to get out of it after some lessons! So christmas isn't over yet for me.
5. Oli: My last real and worst hangover of all times was back in about 2004, when I still played with Creeping Vengeance together with Matt and Mauro and we did a Party. I fucked myself up with a bottle of Tullamore Dew and spent the night with my head hanging in the toilets (luckily it was my own)... Since then I cannot even stand the smell of it anymore. I'm sorry to be unable to tell you more. I forgot every single detail about that epic night - or repressed it. That's what a real hangover is all about.
Mauro: Actually my last hangover is only about two weeks old... Since I live in the country of the real traditional Absinth and because there is a bar right at the corner of my House (which sells this heavy booze for half the prize of a coke in an average pub), my flesh was weak. So I drank three and a half big glasses of it without remembering how i made the 100 meters back home. The next thing I can remember was me being more or less in the same position as Oli back in 2004. And: there is no such thing to shorten the ordeal, because drinking whatever liquid substance makes it even worse... By doing it, the Thujon (the hallucinogenic stuff in the Absinth) dissolves itself and you're drunk as hell again.
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Bandcamp
Myspace
Rigor Sardonicous (United States, death doom / funeral)
Joseph Fogarazzo (vocals, guitars)
1. Our last release was March 2012 and we have material for a new album in the works though we are not sure what will be released in 2013.
2. Season of the Dead, The Deathless Sol, and Nox Noctis Theca Dies. We think they may harbor the most dense and bleak of our moods.
3. Our own since it almost did not get released.
4. A place to stay after a hurricane wiped my apartment out.
5. That would have to be this past easter. It started as an innocent dinner with some wine before the pub. A bottle and half of good red wine on my own and a beer before the night even begins. Later a few Shocktop pumpkin brews, along with shots of something I do not know, when I realized I could not walk. Not sure how I survived but it took a many days to recover.
Official Website
Myspace
Official Forum
Guillaume (guitars)
1. Well, so we have a new guitar player since 2 months. We’re actually recording a split LP (with the swedish band VOID MOON witch will be released on Emanes Metal Records) and working on our next album. We hope to record it this summer.
2. I like all of our songs. If somebody in the band dislike a song we don’t keep it. If i’ve to choose one ... maybe SlowStone Banner.
3. The come back of Saint Vitus ! Lillie : F-65 is not their best album, but it’s really great to listen new material of the gods of doom !!
4. A good whisky bottle !
5. Wow, I think it was when i was studying. Eating a shitty MacDo, drinking lot of bad beers and bad whisky. I was really lucky that my friend didn’t want that i died like Bon Scott in his parents house.
Official Website
Bandcamp
Myspace
Viaje a 800 (Spain, stoner doom rock)
1. We have confirmed the last tour in Spain, after that, we quit definitely.
2. With no doubt, for me the best song and my favourite and the one I´m the most proud of is ' Los Angeles que hay en mi Piel' (The Angels in my skin).
3. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill;
Astra - The Black Chord;
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Blood Lust;
Corrosión Of Conformity – self-titled;
Wovenhand - The Laughing Stalk;
Jonathan Wilson - Gentle Spirit.
4. The best gift has been a pysch oil lamp "Mathmos Space Oil Light".
5. Worst hangover ever was on 25th jan 2012, better not mention which substances I took, dangerous... the only thing I can say is I will never drug myself again, at least until I forget that bad experience...
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Uzala (United States, doom metal)
Chad Remains (guitars, vocals)
1. UZALA will record new songs in January in Seattle with Tad Doyle at Witch Ape Studio. We will also see the s/t LP be issued in the US by King of the Monsters Records with a bonus 12" single. We will tour with Ephemeros in October hitting the Fall Into Darkness (Portland) and Autumn Screams Doom (Baltimore) festivals along the way. There may be a few other releases as well.
2. This question is like being asked to pick a favorite beer. It depends on my mood and the weather at the time I suppose. I really like playing Death Masque, Burned, The Reaping, Wardrums, Cataract live... I am very happy with Batholith and Gloomy Sunday on the record since we did those very differently than I thought we might. Right now we have new songs that nobody has heard yet - they are very different from what has come before.
3. I mostly listened to Pallbearer when I wasn't listening to old Scorpions or new Darkthrone records. High on Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis is great and the reissue of Dopesmoker by SLEEP sounds fucking MASSIVE on vinyl. The new Myrkraverk is phenomenal - but I don't know if it's released until next year. Jef Whitehead introduced Darcy and I to the music of Ved Buens Ende. I'm amazed by the fact I'd never heard it before.
4. Darcy and I bought each other a tour van. PERFECT.
5. I don't really do hangovers since I don't really drink to excess and I don't do drugs. I prefer to enjoy a few great tasting beers and a good conversation, although I did drink a lot more than usual in Norway - coffee, espresso,vodka, and Bailey's is a deadly good drink after several good beers.
Bandcamp
Myspace
Who Dies In Siberian Slush (Russia, funeral / death doom)
E.S. (guitars, vocals)
1. On 25 December 2012 Who Dies In Siberian Slush released their second album “We Have Been Dead Since Long Ago...” at Solitude prod. Stylistically the material differs from the debut album; it substantially tends to death-doom. Some people did not welcome it, especially in Russia. What can I say...? The third album we are working at will still be different from the
second one. I encourage those who have not formed their unbiased opinion to listen to the album at https://soundcloud.com/wdiss. As far as the plans are concerned. The most possible, yet not fully confirmed, is the presentation of the new album in February-March, and participation in another MOSCOW FUNERAL LEAGUE festival in October 2013.
2. I don't think we have a song representing Who Dies In Siberian Slush ideally yet. Our various tracks could represent us at various periods of time. The first album must be characterized by “Leave Me”, “Mobius Ring” and "Zaveschanie Gumilyova", the second - by “The Day Of Marvin Heemeyer”, “The Spring”, “Of Immortality”. I am critical to my works, almost ironical. Besides, in one song the composer's idea is best developed, in another the performance is finer, in some the text is better, or the atmosphere, etc. I cannot name the song where it all could be combined. I think we have not yet composed and played our best song.
3. I must make it clear, I don't listen to music much, my taste is pretty limited and conservative, and it has been for many years. In general I prefer the 1990's death-metal, death doom, and funeral doom of all kinds. The most interesting releases for me in 2012 were Worship
“Terranean Wake” and Towards Darkness “Barren”. As well as a couple of albums released at Russian labels: Krief de Soli “Munus solitudinis” (Endless Winter) and Ennui “Mze Ukunisa” (MFL-RECORDS).
4. For me it was the beginning of studio work over a full-length album of another project I participate in, Decay Of Reality. It is a real present, sane, swift and fruitful cooperation with soul-mates. Decay Of Reality is hardcore death-metal with texts about psychiatric disorders. My task in the band is vocals. I hope that the results of our work over the DOR debut album will interest funeral/death-doom fans apart from death metal fans, as the band is stocked up with
musicians from Abstract Spirit and Otkrovenie Dozhdya.
5. I lived through my worst hangovers during the university time, when my ideas of what, how much and with whom to drink were only forming. The most treacherous booze, I presume, is hrenovuha (a completely thermonuclear drink of vodka with horseradish). It is great to drink,
great in its effect, yet afterwards terrible reek and severe hangover. I am not good at advising how to combat hangover, as I am a bench warmer now - been sober since October 2012. However, judging by the previous experience, I can say, that the best thing to beat hangover
is to drink away until you drop out again.
Official Website
Bandcamp
ReverbNation
Soundcloud
Witch Mountain (United States, doom metal)
Uta Plotkin (vocals)
1. Witch Mountain is going to EUROPE in April for ROADBURN and subsequent touring!! One of my long-time dreams is coming true. And it will be with Cough and Wounded Kings, two excellent bands. We recently independently released Cauldron of the Wild on vinyl and Rob is writing our fourth album right now. Busy, busy.
2. We have a song called "Shelter" on Cauldron of the Wild that starts off slow and bluesy, gets heavy with stoner rock weight and then takes off with a triumphant gallop into the sunset. It is a good representation of all the styles we like best.
3. I love Blood Ceremony's Living with the Ancients. We got to play with them this year in their hometown, Toronto, and get to know them a little. They are grade A people and musicians, every one; that was a great show!
4. I've been wanting to read 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez for a long time. I got it as a present and now I want to go play metal in South America! I know there are lots of fans down there. Now how do we do it??
5. I can think of 3 that stand out for last year. Two were on tour with Witch Mountain but the worst was in Bali, visiting a friend. Don't drink two bottles of wine and slam a magic mushroom shake!! Pick one or the other! If you insist on doing it anyway, take a friend so they can drag you out of the street and walk you home.
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